Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa denounced the hundreds of ICE raids and deportations that have occurred in Los Angeles and neighboring areas in the last few days.
In a press conference held last Friday morning, Villaraigosa, who served as the city’s 41st mayor from 2005 to 2013, called the raids “ un-American” and “military style.”
“I have never seen military-style deportations. People coming in military fatigues, masked up from head to shoulders [and] in unmarked cars,” he said. “They are terrorizing our communities. They are stopping people who are citizens. They are going into schools and churches and courthouses and places of work and places of shopping. They’re doing so in an indiscriminate way and in a way that violates the civil rights of Angelenos.”…